WoW freeze in character selection screen

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Hello! I am very new to lutris and would call me a noob :slight_smile:

I just installed PopOS, made all the upgrades and updates and tried to play World of Warcraft with Lutris.
First I installed WoW through that “Install” Button on the WoW Lutris website. It installed battlenet (first it downloaded some dependencies) and after that I logged in and installed World of Warcraft the same way how I would do it on a windows pc. The “freeze” problem occurred.

I removed WoW through the Lutris client and installed BattleNet (install button from the website again). After that I installed WoW in the launcher again: Same problem.

I checked if I have all the needed dependencies installed for battlenet and vulkan etc etc (it already was).

//EDIT:
This forum tells me that I am only able to post two links as a new user… well … then here they are in a Pastebin … :):

https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/6BpKPN6fbZ/

Sometimes this window appears:

Help :slight_smile:

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Try to update Wine to 5.21 then ask Lutris to use it for WOW

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Worked! Thank you!

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I have the same problem, I’ve seen in some places to install version 5.19 of wine and use DirectX 11, but I haven’t been able to do that yet. If you know the solution please post and guide me. Thank you very much in advance.

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@morias You should use Wine 5.21 which is available in Lutris now.

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It worked! thank you very much for the tip, now I leave the windows instead, thanks for the attention, nobody had helped me so far !!!

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Odd, I have not been able to get the 5.21-staging version to work at all. I had to roll back to 5.20-staging to get back into the game.

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Just to keep this updated, using lutris-5.21-2-x86_64 has worked great once it landed.

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Since yesterday evening the Launcher doesn’t work anymore, do you guys have this problem too? The game itself runs when I change the executable to the game’s .exe though.

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//Edit: okay there was a weird overlay in the launcher itself (the dark area), I just clicked at the most top of the darker area and it diappeared, the Play button etc. is back there again.

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Just to keepr this updated, do not update to wine-staging 5.22. Keep something in between 5.19 and 5.21.
And sometimes Blizzard has these weird advertising overlays …do not panic but try to blindly find the x :slight_smile:

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  1. Use lutris-wine 5.21

  2. launch WOW with dx11legacy option.

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